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Enabling hand-crafted visual markers at scale

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Authors

Preston, W 
Benford, S 
Thorn, EC 
Koleva, B 
Rennick-Egglestone, S 

Abstract

As locative media and augmented reality spread into the everyday world so it becomes important to create aesthetic visual markers at scale. We explore a designer-centred approach in which skilled designers handcraft seed designs that are automatically recombined to create many markers as subtle variants of a common theme. First, we extend the d-touch topological approach to creating visual markers that has previously been shown to support creative design with two new techniques: area order codes and visual checksums. We then show how the topological structure of such markers provides the basis for recombining designs to generate many variations. We demonstrate our approach through the creation of beautiful, personalized and interactive wallpaper. We reflect on how technologies must enable designers to balance goals of scalability, aesthetics and reliability in creating beautiful interactive decoration. Copyright is held by the owner/author(s).

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Keywords

Visual markers, topological markers, fiducial markers, patterns, computer vision, image recognition

Journal Title

DIS 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems

Conference Name

2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems

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ACM
Sponsorship
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/M02315X/1)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/L023717/1)
This research has been supported by the Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute (EPSRC Grant No. EP/G065802/1 and EP/M02315X/1) and the ‘Living With Interactive Decorative Patterns’ project (EPSRC Grant No. EP/L023717/1).